# pepo
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Doublet of pumpion; compare pumpkin.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpiː.pəʊ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈpi.poʊ/
* Hyphenation: pe‧po
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Noun

pepo (plural pepos)
* A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
* A plant producing such a fruit.
** 1945, George Francis Carter, Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest, Issue 5 edition, page 25:The Papago claim that their ancient pepo would produce a mature, sweet melon if the ground were wet only once, while the "new" melons would not.

#### Synonyms

* (fruit): gourd, melon, pumpkin, squash, cucumber
* (plant): cucurbit

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* EPPO, Pope, peop., pope

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpepo]
* Rhymes: -epo
* Hyphenation: pe‧po

### Noun

pepo (accusative singular pepon, plural pepoj, accusative plural pepojn)
* a chirp, peep, twitter
* (Internet) a tweet

#### Related terms

* pepi (“to chirp”)

## Guaraní
### Etymology

Cognate with Old Tupi pepó.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [peˈpo]
* Rhymes: -o
* Hyphenation: pe‧po

### Noun

pepo
* wing

## Italian
### Verb

pepo
* first-person singular present indicative of pepare

## Kaingang
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪˈpo/

### Noun

pepo
* toad

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέσσω (péssō, “ripen”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpe.poː/, [ˈpɛpoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpe.po/, [ˈpɛːpo]

### Noun

pepō m (genitive peponis); third declension
* melon (picked ripe)
** Cucumis melo: true melons
** Citrullus lanatus: watermelon

#### Usage notes

* See also cucumis.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* mēlopepō

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: pjepër, pjep
* Aromanian: peapini, peapine, piponj
* → English: pepo
* → French: péponide
* Middle French: pompon
** → Dutch: pompoen, pampoen (obsolete, rare)
*** Afrikaans: pampoen
*** Berbice Creole Dutch: pampuna
*** Negerhollands: pampuen, pampon
**** → Virgin Islands Creole: pum pum (dated)
*** Skepi Creole Dutch: pampun
*** → Papiamentu: pampuna, pampoena
*** → Sranan Tongo: pampun
**** → Saramaccan: pampú
*** → West Frisian: pompoen
** → English: pumpion, pompion
*** → Welsh: pwmpen
*** ⇒ pumpkin (see there for further descendants)
* Italian: popone
* Portuguese: pepino
* Romanian: pepene
* Spanish: pepino, pepón
* → Translingual: Pepo
* →⇒ Scottish Gaelic: peapag

### References

* “pepo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* pepo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Swahili
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to upepo (wind), see https://x.com/BantuLanguages/status/1871462313661796788”)

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

pepo class V or IX (plural mapepo class VI or pepo class X)
* spirit, demon

### Noun

pepo class X
* plural of upepo